Towards a responsible usage of AI-based Large Acoustic Models for Automatic Speech Recognition: on the importance of data in the self-supervised era

Preventing dropout and distress at university: a study on the mediating role of academic engagement

Background. Academic drop-out in higher education has implications both on individuals’ well-being and on a public health level. The present project, entitled drOpout pReventIon and EngagemeNT At The University Of Naples (ORIENTATION), aims to analyze the relationships of one of the psychological variables most influencing university dropout, namely academic engagement (EA), with academic motivation, psychological distress, academic performance, and intention to and actual dropout itself. Met...

The relationship between reflective functioning, psychological distress, academic engagement and intention to drop-out in a sample of university students: a network analysis

Introduction: Mentalizing refers to the human ability to interpret one’s own and others’ behaviour as based on intentional mental states. This construct, operationalized as Reflective Functioning (RF), may be conceived as a psycho-social competence associated with psychological well-being and good outcome treatment. In university context, some studies demonstrated that the students’ psychological well-being may be related to genuine RF; other studies showed that students psychological hea...

Promoting well-being, reflective functioning and academic engagement through university group counselling: a naturalistic study on outcome and process

Introduction: In the last few years, the number of students seeking for help at university counselling services highly increased and university counselling groups proved to be very effective in promoting psychological well-being through the role of group therapeutic factors, such as group cohesion, and low levels of group conflict and avoidance. Methods: The present study aims to evaluate, through both process and outcome measures, the efficacy of 4 counselling groups (N= 25; F= 12; M= 1...